12h 33min, jan 26, 2015 y - IRISH TIMES Mortdecai review: JD reaches an irreversible tipping point of awfulness
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US VA Court Documents: Amber Heard Exhibit 42 - Article - "Mortdecai review: Johnny Depp reaches an irreversible tipping point of awfulness," 1/26/15This wilfully terrible film marks a significant juncture in Johnny Depp’s peculiar career. It is, to him, as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was to the Balkan League: a jolting, possibly irreversible tipping point.
For at least a decade, we have been able to pretend that Depp, still nominally one of his nation’s great actors, was merely going through an unhappy phase. Look at him in his silly hat speaking in that unfunny, reedy accent. Watch him balancing precariously on a stone pelican. There are worse ways of acting out a midlife crisis.
He got away with frightful performances in Alice in Wonderland and the later Pirates of the Caribbean pictures because those projects made so much money. David Koepp’s useless adaptation of Kyril Bonfiglioli’s likable Mortdecai books – Raffles by PG Wodehouse – does not even have the questionable virtue of saleability to recommend it. Shares in Depp Industries are plummeting.
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